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Archive Team: Google Friends Newsletter (August 11, 2011)

On July 29, 2011, Google announced the end of the Google Friends Newsletter.
From April 1998, Google used the monthly newsletter to promote its services
and discuss new developments.

This archive contains a copy of every Google Friends Newsletter, downloaded
from Google's web site in August 2011. The early issues -- April 1998 to
March 2004 -- are available as HTML files; the later issues are available
as the mail messages from the newsletter's Google Groups archive.

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Greetings to our Google Friends,

It's hard to believe, but this monthly missive is now 13 years old. We
hope you've enjoyed reading it over time, and wanted you to know that
we are retiring it in its current form.

As you may know, the Google Friends Newsletter was created by Larry
Page in April 1998, when Google was still on Stanford servers. In the
early days, the Friends notes offered newsy details like "We are
gearing up to do another crawl. We should start within a few weeks"
and tips on tweaking your search queries.

Obviously a lot has happened since then, including changes in how we
communicate updates to all of you. So this will be our last Google
Friends Newsletter. We started the Official Google Blog in 2004 and
joined Twitter in 2009, and we've seen dramatic growth on those
channels. Meanwhile, the number of subscribers to this newsletter has
remained flat, so we've concluded that this format is no longer the
best way for us to get the word out about new Google products and
services.


This item is part of the collection: The Archive Team Just In Time Grabs

Identifier: googlefriendsnewsletter
Mediatype: web
Date: 2011-08-11
Year: 2011
Publicdate: 2011-10-06 01:51:26
Addeddate: 2011-10-06 01:51:26

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